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0 pointsVLM12y ago0 comments

"And this wasn't from some iterative Moore's Law"

It was WRT CPU power. I remember having to use some specially compiled for 486 player to just barely be able to play mp3s. Before that on my 386-40 I was below real time.

I'm pretty sure this is what I was using:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mpg123-oss-i486

This was the days long before P2P, using binaries usenet groups. Or ripping songs yourself, which took quite a long time indeed (like 10 or 15 minutes per song?)

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72deluxe12y ago

Haha ah yes, I remember being amazed by a friend who could convert WAVs to MP3s faster than ripping the CD to WAV. Good times. I remember a base Pentium 90 laptop struggling to play MP3s in Winamp, not massively high bitrate either. I could just about play MP3s on a 486 DX2 66Mhz (and discovered MODs etc. at that time too - smaller to download, using floppy disk and a school's internet access). I was amazed with Grip and its ability to rip and convert straight to MP3s, but it took forever. Good times using RH 6.2.

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